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How Strategy Consulting Got Me Into the Advertising Industry
Chris Jones: I come from a extremely modest background. My parents didn't have any money for education so I got a Navy scholarship, went to university and served five years in the Navy as an officer. A friend of mine said why don't you apply to Harvard Business School? He says he really enjoyed the case method because it reminded me so much of what it was like to read a novel. The book is about strategy consulting on the one hand careers, how they develop,. how it got me into the advertising industry which was a big surprise and how it led him to write two books.
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